Bolanthus mevlanaea Aytaç, Ann. Bot. Fenn.

Yildizbaş, Avni & Koç, Murat, 2025, The taxonomic revision of genus Bolanthus (Caryophyllaceae) in Türkiye, Phytotaxa 696 (1), pp. 28-54 : 42-44

Bolanthus mevlanaea Aytaç, Ann. Bot. Fenn. 41(3): 218 (2004).

Type:— [ Turkey C3 Antalya] Between Akseki and Bozkır, 45 km, Golcuk , 1780 m, steppe, 16 July 1997, Aytac 7733 (holotype GAZI!; isotypes: GAZI!, ANK, E, HUB) .

Description ( Figs. 11–13): — Perennial herbs. Stems 20–50 cm wide compact branched ascending or erect, 3–5 cm, base 0.8–1.2 mm diameter, short puberulent haris, internodes 2–5 mm. Leaves setaceous, 2–5 × 0.5v 0.6 mm, glabrous, prominent 1-nerved, greenish, not adpressed to stem; terminal acute; sheaths membranous, 1–1.3 mm. Inflorescence in the terminal clusters, dense glandular hairs; flowers sessile, in each clusters 5–10. Calyx tubulate, dense glandular hairs, 4–5 × 1.2–1.4 mm; calyx teeth narrowly triangular, 1.5–2 mm tall, margins ciliate, terminal acute. Petals linear-oblong, 5.5–6 × 0.8–1.2 mm, up to 1.5 times sepals, limb white, petal nerves dark pink; terminal emarginate; base cuneate. Stamens 10, anthers 2–3 mm tall. Styles 2. Capsule oblong, 3–4 × 1–1.4 mm, 2–4-seeded, usually as much as sepals. Seeds comma shaped 0.8–1.1 × 0.6–0.8 mm, brown, side and ridge surface tuberculate, granular.

Phenology: July, 1780 m, stony places.

General Distribution: Endemic. East Mediterranean element.

Distribution for Türkiye: The Mediterranean region.

Notes:— The taxon was firstly defined with the name Bolanthus mevlanae by Aytaç in 2004 ( Aytaç 2004). The type specimens of the taxon was detaily examined. The paper published by Aytaç and the detailed descriptions were gathered and as a result, the features that were defined as distinctive characters by the researcher including short internodes, sepals 4–5 mm long, absence of pedicels and dense inflorescence were determined to be the characters shared with Bolanthus thymoides . However, it differs from this taxon in terms of having hairless, setaceous shaped leaves. Also it has been recommended to be placed in the VU B1-a category ( IUCN 2017). Its distribution in Türkiye was given in Figure 13 .

Specimens examined: — TÜRKİYE. C3 Antalya: Between Akseki and Bozkır, 45 km, Golcuk , 1780 m, steppee, 16 July 1997, Aytaç 7733 ( GAZI) ; Konya: south of BeyŞehir lake, around Üstünler , oak bottoms, 1150 m, Küçüködük, 30 June 1986 (KNYA-1234) .

Figures

FIGURE 13. Distribution of taxa B. huber-morathii (D), B. mevlanae (●) and B. turcicus (■) in Türkiye.